Stabilizing single- and two-color vortex beams in quadratic media by a trapping potential

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2741-2748

  Sakaguchi, Hidetsugu ^a   Malomed, Boris A ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; COLOR; EDGE DISLOCATIONS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY; VORTICITY;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; EXISTENCE AND STABILITY; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; LOCALIZED MODES; MEAN FIELD DYNAMICS; PITCHFORK BIFURCATIONS; POWER THRESHOLDS; QUADRATIC MEDIA; SECOND-HARMONIC FIELDS; SPLITTINGS; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES; TOTAL POWER; TRAPPING POTENTIAL; TWO-COLOR; VARIATIONAL APPROXIMATION; VORTEX BEAMS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84867500611     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.29.002741     Document Type: Article

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